ha ha... aiyah
reminds me of my childhood...
i used to hang out at my void deck playing harmless games...
football,catch spider, hide and seek etc
one fine day a bunch of outsiders came (local indian kids).
troublemakers. used expletives on us. typical territorial
behaviour. took over our void deck bench. one chief plus a few
lieutenants. didn't really bother me until they tried to extort
money from one of my younger neighbours.
after that i was seeking confrontation with them. got my chance
when the ball we were playing rolled their way. they kept it and
verbally abused me who came over to retrieve. the fattish chief guy
walked up and sized me up asked if i wanna get beaten up. what i
did was looked him square in the face, smiled and led him by his
arm to one corner of the void deck. he was shocked but followed. I
put my arm across his shoulder as we walked, like old frens like
dat.the others looked on stunned. then in a quiet corner i told him
we can fight if u want, you and me, no friends, man to man.
gentleman style. that way if i lose my brothers won't come after
you, and if you lose same thing happen. told him he got a minute to
prepare. how? he looked at me with disbelief. i could tell the
expression wanna laugh or wanna cry one. he then walked away and
sat with his gang who soon left. after that i told my neighbours
lets stay away for a week let things cool. a week later everything
went back to normal, they're no more there. of course we'd bump
into each other time to time... i'd smile and wave, he'd just nod.
ha ha... kids.
